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Dear Valentine, With Love
“Sometimes love looks like small things” -Tracy K. Smith “If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong.” St. Paul (1 Corinthians 13:1-13 NRSV.) Kindness is the greatest endangered thing. And here you are, existing, your...
Snow Days
We went from crackling windy, wood stove roaring cold to snow, lots of it, overnight this weekend. Just as I am in the middle of yet more home improvement projects inspired by my free time since not being on the borough assembly, and the anxiety of waiting for my new...
Sunday’s Thought
"Some live by love thy neighbor as thyself, others by first do no harm or take no more than you need.What if the mightiest word is love?...In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun. On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp,...
Sunday’s Thought
"I believe that life is an extraordinary gift, a blink of bright light between vast darknesses. I believe that the fingerprints of the Maker are everywhere : children, hawks, water." - Brian Doyle from Leaping: Revelations and Epiphanies
Epiphanies
Just about as soon as the Christmas Day party was cleaned up, we headed to Juneau to see the kids there, and my daughter Eliza, her dog Jeff, and the redheads came back to Haines with us, so we made sure we took a photo with all the grandchildren in it: Trouble is it...
A Little Christmas Cheer
I am up early, and it's dark, and I was emailing a friend and sending her some photos, and I realized I should send some to you too-- as a thank you. Yesterday by lunchtime I survived about a foot of fresh snow, a power outage while at the pool just as I was finishing...
Sunday’s Thought
On snow from Frederick Buechner: "It is snow to be shoveled; to make driving even worse than usual, snow to be joked about and cursed at, unless the child in you is entirely dead, it is snow too that can make the heart beat faster...it is snow that can awaken memories...